John Baldwin HAWLEY

(1831-1895)

HAWLEY, John Baldwin, a
Representative from Illinois; born in Hawleyville, Fairfield
County, Conn., February 9, 1831; moved with his parents to
Carthage, Hancock County, Ill., in 1833; attended the public
schools and Jacksonville College, Jacksonville, Ill.; studied law;
was admitted to the bar in 1854 and commenced practice at Rock
Island, Ill.; elected State’s attorney in 1856 and served
four years; enlisted in the Union Army during the Civil War and
served as captain of Company H, Forty-fifth Regiment, Illinois
Volunteer Infantry; appointed postmaster of Rock Island, Ill., in
1865, and was removed the year following by President Johnson;
elected as a Republican to the Forty-first, Forty-second, and
Forty-third Congresses (March 4, 1869-March 3, 1875); chairman,
Committee on Expenditures on Public Buildings (Forty-second
Congress), Committee on Claims (Forty-third Congress); unsuccessful
candidate for renomination in 1874; Assistant Secretary of the
Treasury from December 6, 1877, until April 1880, when he resigned;
moved to Chicago, Ill., in 1880 and resumed the practice of law;
moved to Omaha, Nebr., in 1886; general attorney for the western
branches of the Northwestern Railroad Co.; died at Hot Springs,
S.Dak., May 24, 1895; interment in Prospect Hill Cemetery, Omaha,
Nebr.

Source: Biographical Directory of the United States Congress, 1771-Present